Whine
I booked my conference registration, hotel, and airfare to the conference in State College. I hope it’s good. Every conference I’ve ever attended has been basically worthless, but my job is always encourage people to attend conferences. It’ll be kind of nice to get away, I guess.
Wine class starts tonight, which I’m looking forward to. This is “Wines of Italy,” which should be fun considering I don’t know very much about Italian wine. Generally speaking, I like new world wines (California, Washington, Argentina, Chile, Australia) better than European wines, but I think this class will help me move beyond those generalizations. When we took our first wine class, which was just a general overview course, I learned that I do, in fact, like some Rieslings and Gewürztraminers. So there you go.
Where are you taking the class? Prairie Table? New Pi? We had dinner with friends on Tuesday who’ve taken a couple classes at PT and really enjoyed them a lot (we were having dinner at 126 under the mistaken impression that Tuesdays are 1/2-price wine nights — nope, it’s Mondays).
We’re taking it through Kirkwood–it’s a six-week session. The last one we took was through Kirkwood too. I really enjoyed it, even though some of the students were doofus-y. I wonder if the clientele at New Pi and/or Prairie Table would be more focused.
Some people didn’t even take notes!
Oh yeah. I’ve heard of the Kirkwood class. I hope you’ll post about anything paticularly good you come across (or drop a line in Mail>).
The Prairie Table class does sound more focused (and expensive, hence the lack of doofuses, I imagine).